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Fresh radar work on the Giza Plateau is reviving one of archaeology’s most persistent questions: what, if anything, lies ...

Archaeologists in Britain say they have found the earliest known evidence of deliberate fire-making, dating to around 400,000 ...

Archaeologists say they have found the oldest known instance of fire setting, a key moment in human evolution.

How a booming smuggling market led a 15-ton iron space rock to be stolen, sold by terrorists and hidden somewhere in China ...

Archaeologists found flint, iron pyrite to strike it and sediments where a fire was probably built several times at an ...

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when ...

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...